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In today's episode, we delve into the surreal and heart-wrenching journey of Mike Murphy and his loved ones as they navigate the complexities of medical treatment. From Northern California to Southern California's USC Medical Center, they face unimaginable challenges, including full brain radiation therapy, emergency room visits, and a significant decline in health. As Mike becomes his loved one's advocate, he uncovers medical mistakes and emphasizes the importance of being a voice for those in need. However, amidst the grief and devastation, Mike's experience ultimately leads him to a profound transformation and a newfound belief in the power of healing from within. Join us as we delve into the depths of Mike's story, exploring the injustices of the healthcare system and the incredible strength of the human spirit.
Dale Masten loved Christ at an early age, and loves Him still at 60. In between years included times of doubt, questioning, skepticism, and looking for anywhere but up for life's answers. Yet, God kept calling him back and Dale listened. "I derailed but I kept coming back. I couldn't live without God." He also couldn't live very well without a new kidney which he received earlier this year after a 10-year-wait. He got the call from USC Medical Center on a Sunday afternoon. "We have a kidney. If you want it, you need to be here between 4 and 6 hours." Dale and his wife of 35 years, Jill, got into the car without packing and within 5 hours he was on the table, wondering at all that was about to happen. Dale knows that there is no meaning without God, faith grows in adversity and community, and that meaningful relationships begin with openness, love and vulnerability. He loves people. Reminded me of Jesus. You will be challenged and encouraged today with Dale's story. Some gems from today's podcast: God honors the process and builds character through suffering. We need to be intentional with our gratitude or it quickly subsides into taking things for granted. I celebrate that God made me someone who is voraciously interested in people. Vulnerability is the gateway to intimacy. I had a new kidney but I still had my same old character flaws.
May 13, 2022: Today we walk through the impressive resume of https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesboicey/ (Charles Boicey), Chief Innovation Officer at https://clearsense.com/ (Clearsense). Beginning as a Paramedic, moving to Nursing and working at the LA county USC Medical Center in the 80s and 90s in the thick of a unit filled with gunshots, stabbings and other mayhem from man versus man. Moving on to Nurse Manager, Senior Clinical Project Manager. Completing Computer Science, Technology and Management degrees. Next was Clinical Informatics Officer then Informatics Solutions Architect at UCI followed by Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer for Social Health Insights. Charles is currently a Professor at Stony Brook and leader of Clearsense. He believes the doctor of the future will give no medication, but in the interest of patients give care of the human frame in diet and the cause and prevention of disease. Charles is dedicating his career to engaging people, not in healthcare, but in health. Key Points: The number one thing that's tweeted about hospitals is …. food! The end product isn't what's in your head. It's what the clinical staff needs. Technology is improving exponentially and the need for technology is exponential. What does it look like when data governance is done right? https://clearsense.com/ (Clearsense)
Our guest this week is a double board certified medical doctor.. He specialized inAnesthesiology at both USC Medical Center and UCLA Medical Center, and further obtainedsubspecialty certification in Pain Management. He is a Diplomat of the American Board ofAnesthesiology and American Board of Pain Medicine. But, he isn't the kind of Doctor that justgives you pills and send you on your way. He focuses his practice towards cutting edgeregenerative medicine, by injecting Stem Cell Therapy and Platelet Rich Plasm (PRP) intodamaged discs or joints areas. We are excited to hear about what it is like to stab people withneedles every day, what world class athletes he works with and figure out a game plan on how heis going to make Choccy and I feel we are in our 20's again. We welcome to the showSonny “ DOCTOR FEELGOOD “ Rubin M.DSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Dr. Audrey Boros, Dr. Jay Reznick, & Dr. John Robberson discuss when something should be referred for evaluation or watched, indications for referral, common hard and soft tissue lesions, morbidity, and cooperation between GPs, oral surgeons and oral pathologists. Dr. Audrey Boros graduated Magna Cum Laude from USC and was inducted into the Omicron Kappa Upsilon Honors Dental Society. She completed her residency in Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology at New York Presbyterian. She is an Assistant Professor at USC Ostrow School of Dentistry and Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Pathology at the USC Medical Center. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and Immediate Past President of the Southern California Academy of Oral Pathology.Dr. Reznick and Dr. Robbersons have been featured on past podcasts and their bios are available on those podcasts. The Dental Clinical Companion Podcast (DCCP) is provided for general informational purposes only. The DCCP, MounceEndo, LLC, Dr. Joel Fransen, Richmond Endodontics CA, and Dr. Richard Mounce personally have no liability for any clinical, management, or financial decisions or actions taken or made by you based on the information provided in this program. The DCCP is not intended to offer dental, medical, legal, management, investment, surgical, tax, clinical, or any other professional advice. Reliance on the information in the DCCP is done entirely at the listeners own risk. No guarantees, representations, or warrantees are made with regard to the completeness, accuracy, and/or quality of the DCCP. The DCCP takes no responsibility for, does not endorse, and does not imply a relationship/affiliation to any websites, products, services, devices, individuals, organizations which are hyperlinked to any DCCP component or mentioned in the DCCP. Third party materials, hyperlinks, and/or DCCP content does not reflect the opinions, standards, and policies of MounceEndo, LLC (owner of the DCCP, Dr. Richard Mounce, the guest, or show sponsors). The DCCP makes no warranty that the Podcast and its server are free of computer viruses or other destructive or contaminating code elements. The Dental Clinical Companion Podcast expressly disclaims any and all liability or responsibility for any direct, indirect, incidental, special consequential or other damages arising out of any individuals use of, reference to, reliance on, or inability to use, this podcast or the information presented in this podcast. Support the show (http://mounceendo.com/)
On today's show, with ICU capacity now at zero-percent in Southern California, we'll have the latest on Orange County's plan to handle hospital overflow; Then, we'll check in with the chief doctor at USC Medical Center who says the situation there is increasingly dire; Plus, details on a new effort by L.A. County to get a better understanding of suicide among military veterans. Support the show: https://support.laist.com/laistnav
Season seven was our most downloaded season EVER! Thank you all so much for listening and sharing. Please enjoy this fan-favorite from season five, while Laura and Scott continue to record brand-new episodes for season eight of The Only One In The Room. In an effort to really acknowledge this time, this crisis that seems to keep going on and on, hosts Laura Cathcart Robbins & Scott Slaughter track down some real life heros and she-ros who are currently showing up on the front lines of this pandemic. People like nurses, doctors, advocates for the homeless community, teachers, grocery store workers, firefighters and more. This episode features Natalie Gordon, a RN BSN who works in the ER Trauma unit at LAC + USC Medical Center, a 600 bed medical facility, one of the largest hospitals in the country. How To Help: To send a card: 2051 Marengo Street LA CA 90033, attn: ER Department To send food to your local ER, contact DINE 11 at dine11.org Be sure not to miss our weekly full episodes on Tuesdays and Scott Talks now released on Wednesdays by subscribing to the show wherever you listen to podcasts. Join our Only One In The Room Facebook Group if you'd like to ask a question of any of our upcoming guests for this series. Also visit the website www.theonlyonepod.com for the latest from our host Laura Cathcart Robbins like featured articles and more. We love hearing from you in the comments on iTunes and while you're there don't forget to rate us, subscribe and share the show! All of us at The Only One In The Room wish you safety and wellness during this challenging time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Witnessing the "ceaseless wave of humanity that crashes upon the safety net hospitals" spurred Dr. Brad Spellberg, who is chief medical officer at the largest public hospital in America's largest county, to write a book describing the depth of the problem and offering solutions. The COVID-19 crisis has, unfortunately, highlighted the system's weaknesses and made his new book "Broken, Bankrupt and Dying" all the more relevant. As he explains to Dr. Rishi Desai in this compelling interview, other countries offer models we can follow to fix a system that spends far more than anywhere else and produces worse health outcomes.
This week I begin what will be a series of interviews with Dr. Jonas Kaplan, a cognitive neuroscientist at USC Medical Center whose entire job is figuring out how the brain operates in such a way as to render thinking. In this first episode, we discuss the basic anatomy of the brain and how it... The post Sensibly Speaking Podcast #243: Let’s Get Into Neuroscience with Dr. Jonas Kaplan appeared first on The Sensibly Speaking Podcast.
In an effort to really acknowledge this time, this crisis that seems to keep going on and on, hosts Laura Cathcart Robbins & Scott Slaughter track down some real life heros and she-ros who are currently showing up on the front lines of this pandemic. People like nurses, doctors, advocates for the homeless community, teachers, grocery store workers, firefighters and more. This episode features Natalie Gordon, a RN BSN who works in the ER Trauma unit at LAC + USC Medical Center, a 600 bed medical facility, one of the largest hospitals in the country. How To Help: To send a card: 2051 Marengo Street LA CA 90033, attn: ER Department To send food to your local ER, contact DINE 11 at dine11.org Be sure not to miss our weekly full episodes and Scott Talks each Tuesday by subscribing to the show wherever you listen to podcasts. Join our Only One In The Room Facebook Group if you'd like to ask a question of any of our upcoming guests for this series. Also visit the website www.theonlyonepod.com for the latest from our host Laura Cathcart Robbins like featured articles and more. We love hearing from you in the comments on iTunes and while you're there don't forget to rate us, subscribe and share the show! All of us at The Only One In The Room wish you safety and wellness during this challenging time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We had the privilege of hosting Jorge Orozco, CEO of LA County USC Medical Center who spoke at our first Future Of Work Conference held at Pasadena City College in November of 2019. In this episode we feature his talk that raised the point that it is absolutely crucial for the employees at LAC-USC to have shared life experiences with their clients, which poses the question of how to prepare students for this requirement from an educational stand point. The answer begins with working together. Find the transcript to this episode here To connect with us about the podcast visit our website Please be sure to subscribe, rate and review us on apple podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts! And share this episode with anyone in need of a little more insight to the topic of THE FUTURE OF WORK, especially if you reside in the Los Angeles, Ca or surrounding areas.
Maritza Morales is the Executive Director for LAC+USC Medical Center CARES. We had a wonderful conversation about the great work she, her staff, and volunteers are doing. Did you know? The origin of LAC+USC Medical Center dates to 1878 when the County of Los Angeles opened a 100-bed hospital. The County affiliated with the University... The post Maritza Morales, LAC+USC Medical Center, CARES appeared first on Born To Talk.
Maritza Morales is the Executive Director for LAC+USC Medical Center CARES. We had a wonderful conversation about the great work she, her staff, and volunteers are doing. Did you know? The origin of LAC+USC Medical Center dates to 1878 when the County of Los Angeles opened a 100-bed hospital. The County affiliated with the University... The post Maritza Morales, LAC+USC Medical Center, CARES appeared first on Born To Talk.
Damacio Torres walked into USC Medical Center with concealed weapons and opened fire on any doctor he could see. Along the way he took hostages, and terrorized patients before surrendering. Initially, Torres was described as "a disgruntled patient fed up with waiting," but my dad found out his motivation was much more sinister than impatience. This episode is a complete shocker. Listen now to find out what surprise piece of evidence my dad still has to this day. _____________________________________________Don't forget to R A T E and R E V I E W! We sincerely appreciate it. We have a Facebook Page now! Check it out here to interact with us, connect, ask questions and talk with other fans of #WYDKPodcast (We're so happy that there are more of you each week.)Follow Tess on Twitter here. Follow Tess on Instagram here.Follow Matt on Twitter here.Get dad's book, A Season In Pluto here.Tess' new website.
Brief bio on Dr. Melinda Sue Norin 1. Earned Doctorate in Psychology, specializing in Organizational Management and Consulting. 2. Over 35 years creating organizational collaboration & excellence when reaching goals in businesses, associations, educational institutes, government agencies 3. Designed programs and trained staff at over 6,000 companies, receiving Awards from the County of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Unified School District, USC Medical Center, Metro and the Ventrance Cout Transportation Commission. 4. Earned the Prestigious IRWIN AWARD in "Niche Marketing" in 2016 for creating a portfolio on "The Value and Application of Knowledge Management for Organizational Excellence." She has helped organizations recognize what content, training and actions lead to organizational excellence. 5. Currently summarizing the contents in a soon-to-be-published book: 25 Techniques To Improve Knowledge Management, Board Member CSUN Journalism Alumni Association, recent participant on Maria Shiver's Launch Team for Maria's new bestseller I've Been Thinking.
Drs. Reshma Gupta and Eric Wei discuss LA County’s work on combatting low-value care in the low-income population.
Hi, everyone, and welcome to episode 1 of my podcast Leading A Double Life. I’m Kwei Quartey, a physician and author of the Inspector Darko Dawson novels. On my podcast, stories of what it’s like to be a medical doctor and a writer. This episode, Doctor-Writer, Incorporated. We’re going to look at a well-established but curious bond between writing and being a physician, and I’ll tell you a little bit about how it happened to me. We have records of doctor-writers as far back as the 5th century BC. Even St. Luke, one of the four Gospel authors, is said to have been a physician. John Keats, the English romantic poet who lived from 1795 to 1821, trained at Guy’s Hospital London. He had an aptitude for medicine, but he was ambivalent about it and feared he would never become the poet he wanted to be if he continued his medical training in earnest. He did continue up to getting his license, but ultimately, Keats chose poetry over surgery. On the other hand, Anton Chekhov, the great Russian playwright and short story writer born in 1860, practiced medicine throughout his medical career. Chekhov said, “Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other.” Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of possibly the world’s most famous fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, began writing before he went into medicine and is said to have written his books while waiting for patients to show up. Apparently, they seldom did, and Doyle’s medical practice was never successful. Another physician writer was W Somerset Maugham, who trained and qualified as a physician, but never practiced. On successfully selling his first novel, Maugham abandoned his medical career. Two Harvard-trained physicians, Robin Cook and Michael Crichton, were phenomenally successful writers. Cook, an ophthalmologist, continued his practice while writing bestselling medical thrillers like Coma and Outbreak. On the other hand, Crichton, who died in 2008, dumped medicine on graduating. He never even got a license to practice. One of his quotes is, “Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.” Crichton could not have been more spot-on. Khaled Hosseini, a contemporary of mine who sold a gazillion copies of The Kite Runner and other tour de force novels, practiced medicine in the same medical group as me, but for obvious reasons he left after The Kite Runner became so successful. I’d like to mention also Janet Asimov, who was a psychiatrist and wrote science-fiction and non-fiction; and Abraham Verghese, a professor at the Stanford School of Medicine and the author of the highly acclaimed Cutting For Stone. Dr. Verghese, an inspiring teacher, said, “I wanted the reader to see how entering medicine was a passionate quest, a romantic pursuit, a spiritual calling, a privileged yet hazardous undertaking.” So, we see from these examples there’s no set pattern as to whether these authors became doctors first, or the other way around. In my case, I wanted to be a writer from the early age of eight or nine. I typed or hand-wrote novellas, stapling the pages together between jacket covers I designed myself. My inspiration came from hundreds of books at home, both fiction and nonfiction. Most of all, I loved mysteries. My late Ghanaian father and my black American mother were both lecturers at the University of Ghana, where I grew up with my three brothers. My interest in medicine came years later in my early teens. My family and I were still living in Ghana at the time, and I was set on a science-intensive path that would take me to medical school. But circumstances became complicated at the beginning of my 2nd year. Not only did my father die of pancreatic cancer, but social and economic conditions in Ghana under the then military rule were abysmal. There was political unrest and frequent school and university closures. My mother came to the difficult decision to return home to New York and we, her sons, went with her. Now I faced the daunting task of getting into a new medical school. Through a combination of luck, doggedness, and hard work, I got into Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, DC. After graduating with my MD degree, I was tired of snow on the east coast, so I moved to southern California for my residency in Internal Medicine. During my training at the USC Medical Center in Los Angeles, I didn’t do any creative writing. Residency is an exhausting grind of long call hours and rounds with not enough sleep in between. After completing the training, I went through a strange period in which I felt anticlimactic about being a doctor. Hard to believe, but I was actually looking around for what other careers I could get into. I was sitting at a desk in the ICU of one of the hospitals in Los Angeles one morning and a nurse who knew me well asked me why I looked so despondent. I told her about the funk I was in, and she asked me: “Well, what else, besides medicine, do you want to do?” I said I’d always wanted to be a writer, to which she responded, “What’s stopping you?” Her observation, in the form of a question, was keen. Nothing was stopping me. So, with my love of writing rekindled, I began a creative writing course at UCLA extension, after which I continued several years in a writing group run by Marjorie Miller, who was a previous editor at Macmillan. I completed three novels during that time and attempted a few more that I didn’t finish. I self-published one of them, called Kamila, long before self-publishing became an okay thing to do in the publishing world. But it would be years before I would create my Inspector Darko Dawson series set in Ghana. The prototype character was quite different from the one in existence now. My original idea for him was taken from a French documentary I saw while vacationing in Paris in which a countryside detective in Cote d’Ivoire used the threat of witchcraft to make his suspects and witnesses talk. But for my novels, the rural setting seemed to be limiting, and although I’d observed rural life in Ghana, it was always from the outside in. I never lived it. Eventually then, Darko became an urban police detective who is often sent to remote parts of the country to solve crimes. I should say that when as I began the series, I had some catching up to do because I hadn’t been back to Ghana in some fifteen years, and the country had modernized significantly since I’d last been there, not to mention becoming a stable democracy. So to come full circle, why do doctors write, and in particular, fiction? What compels us to do it? Some people theorize that it’s a way to escape the burden we carry healing others—or trying to—and therefore it has a therapeutic value. Maybe so, but I have another theory that medical practice is the ultimate existential battle to alleviate what ails us. There’s a roadblock, though. Ironically, it’s the doctor himself or herself. A physician is human too—not infallible by any means, and capable of mistakes, sometimes big ones. The fight against illness and disease comes with wins and losses, and some of the time, doctors feel defeated, and it can be frightening discomfiting. But when we write fiction, we are absolutely in control. We determine the plot, characters, and the outcome. It’s a reassuring counterbalance to the unpredictable nature of medicine. So we write, and find ourselves restored with strength to work another day.
Colonel Matthew J. Martin, MD Dr. Martin is currently the Trauma Medical Director and Chief of Surgical Critical Care at Madigan Army Medical Center, Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington State. He is also the Director of Surgical Research and the former Associate Program Director for the Madigan Army Medical Center General Surgery residency program. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and Associate Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, MD. He is the current Chair of the Army State, Region 13, for the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. He has been deployed twice in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and twice in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, service for which he received The Bronze Star as well as many other military distinctions. Dr. Martin completed his undergraduate degree in 1990; a master’s degree in Medical Science in 1995, and his medical degree in 1998 all from Boston University. He completed residency training in General Surgery at Madigan Army Medical Center in 2003, and a fellowship in Trauma and Surgical Critical Care at Los Angeles County Hospital and USC Medical Center in 2005. Dr. Martin has had a prolific literary and research career in the 11 years since completing his formal training which includes contributions to 100s of peer-reviewed publications, authorship of 24 book chapters, and being co-author and editor of two books (“First to Cut: Trauma Lessons Learned in the Combat Zone”; and more recently “Front Line Surgery: A Practical Approach”) Lastly, Dr. Martin is a co-host of the podcast Traumacast, a show that discusses topics related to all things trauma surgery. Please enjoy with Dr. Matthew Martin!